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package com.univocity.parsers.common.processor;

/**
 * Interface used by {@link InputValueSwitch} to allow users to to provide custom matching rules against input values.
 */
public interface CustomMatcher {

	/**
	 * Matches a parsed value against a user provided rule (implementation provided by the user)
	 * @param value the value to be matched
	 * @return {@code true} if the given value matches the user provided rule, otherwise {@code false}
	 */
	boolean matches(String value);
}
